Sunday, January 19, 2020

“He used His Body not only to teach but also to govern and to found a Kingdom.  Gathering the elements of His first Kingdom, consisting mostly of ignorant men, He chose from the twelve of them one as their chief and guide – Peter the Rock, on whom He said He would build His Church, and to whom He committed the supreme power of feeding His lambs and feeding His sheep…This new body, sometimes called a mystical body, is to be understood after the analogy of the human body which is made up of many members performing different functions and yet all cooperating toward the harmony of the whole.  The hand is not the foot, the eye is not the ear, the heart is not the lung.  So, too, the priest is not the layman, the apostle is not the disciple, the Vicar of Christ is not the deacon, and yet all are one in the same Spirit.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Divine Romance)

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